Liz wakes up from her sleep thanks to her alarm in her cell. She turns it off and sees the time in it.
5 am
Then she turns and sees nobody next to her. She looks a bit bewildered but then she turns
"You thought I left didn't you?"
It was Divine who was coming out of the bathroom and she was without her cast and instead was wearing bandages around her wound in her left arm
Liz doesn't say anything
She did keep her word-Liz's thoughts
"Love, I told you I would be here. My word is my honor and I don't break that for anybody"
"Even me?"
Divine just looked at her, didn't respond to her question and instead said
"I'm sorry I wasn't next to you to see you wake up, I just had to get out of my cast. The doctor that put me in this cast told me to wear it for a week and hell the week's up."
Divine puts the cast and the supporter in her always trusty black duffle bag.
"Where did the bag come from?"
"I had one of my people drop it off and take my fedora away to my safe house"
"Do you work for Reddington now?"
Divine just looked at her
"I mean, you wear a fedora, Red wears one..."
"No. I don't work for him. I use too hence why I know about that mossad agent. Also Red isn't the only one who loves those hats. Hell I have some myself. It runs in the family"
Liz does remember the time Dembe told her that Red and Divine had one business together but now it seems there is more to than what meets the eye. Still she refrains to ask Divine of her connection to Red and instead says
"To my understanding, Hector was never the type of person who wore extravagances away from his job"
"I wasn't referring to him; I was referring to my biological father"
"Wait you met him?"
"Yes"
Liz just stared at her.
"It's a long a complicated story. I know you are bound to ask me about it but not now. That topic is too sore for me at the moment"
"I'll give you that. But for now I'm going to get ready"- Liz says as she gets up, gets her clothes and goes to the bathroom.
Divine just put her duffle bag aside and then looked at Liz's wall of clues. She glares at every single one of her so called mentors and shakes her head, but when she sees Dr. Daniel Jefferson's picture and file, she grits her teeth, upset. But, then she hears the shower and turns and sees the door semi- open, she took a peek and she saw Liz taking a shower naked from behind. Divine's fighting with herself to not go in there and actually fulfill every desire she has with Liz. But eventually she doesn't and goes back looking at Liz's wall of clues.
[Minutes later]
"Anything that speaks to you Brenda"
Divine turns to see Liz out of the bathroom dressed with the typical FBI suit but she also caught her wearing the necklace she gave her in Los Angeles and smiled but turned to look at the wall.
"The fact that Red dominates your wall doesn't surprise me. You masturbate to his picture so in a way it's understandable"
Liz opened her eyes in shock
"What does surprise me is that it was you who send the man to take me the picture of the rail tracks in Mexico"- Divine says as she points to the picture and turns to Liz and looks her in the eyes and asks her
"You used my people to get to me"
"I had to know if you were alive but then after that month you disappeared"
"I gave out signals that I was alive still, there were the murders that were committed in New Mexico including a shady lawyer, an increase in crystal meth, heroine and weed in America and Europe, killings in most of Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. All of that was me"
They both stood there as the song No Ordinary Love by Sade was playing in low volume through the background in Divine's cell.
Liz hugs her and puts her face in Divine's neck totally relaxed and at ease. The fact that Liz was hugging her is farfetched. Here she was hugging a woman who is quite literally the most dangerous person in the world today, the number 1 most wanted fugitive, hunted by the government, loved and respected by most criminals and normal people alike. A woman who can quite arguably be at your side at one minute then kill you in the next, will not hesitate to even kill a person and feel no remorse about it. Yet, Liz doesn't feel scared of Divine even though she should be. But, it's as almost as she's enthralled, compelled by Divine's presence.
Divine however, even though she is hugging Liz, she feels puzzled.
"Love, you do realize what you are doing?"
Liz just hugs her.
I won't let them get to you Brenda not the FBI nor Red. I need you here, I...just…do. Despite of you entering my life the way you did…I don't hate you.
But then Divine's soft voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Love, you have a good thing going with Reddington. I know it's ironic saying that due to my feelings towards you but if there's one thing I can't stand is being cheated on. I'm sure he feels the same. Don't destroy that because of me, I've destroyed many lives. Please don't add yourself to that list, I'm begging you."
Liz stops hugging her and looks at her. Divine says
"You are infatuated with me due to what you know about me. I mean you were attracted to Red, he is who he is as well as being Number 4 on the most wanted list and yet, you have a relationship with him. That can cause you to lose everything that you have worked for in the FBI, adding me in is just worse."
"Just because you are here with me."
"That and also the fact that I'm hunted by essentially everybody, your agency, Reddington, the pest…"
"The pest?"
"The one who gave me a wound on my arm, she's known to be quite a pest to many people before she kills them. I'm being hunted down which is the only reason why I can only move around at night or have my hit squad protect me until I heal"
"Those men in black, the drifters who they themselves used to work for their respective agencies but then you came into their life and caused them to turn against their country for you. To kill for you isn't it."
Divine just looks at Liz and says
"You FBI only base yourselves from facts or words. You are basing that testimony based on what Red tells you and some folders from their government agencies isn't it?"
Liz says nothing and Divine just says
"Let me assure you this, if Red's life is complicated and hard to figure out his mystique then I'm worse."
"Why should I consider your word?"
"Everyone has a story to tell, you can't judge anybody in this world. Only god can."
Liz looks at her processing Divine's words. Divine continues to speak
"I know every assassin in the world. The Pest isn't an exception; I even know who contracted her services. She works with an agent and that agent gives her assignments, I just need to know who send her to my location, who's her agent and if the person who contracted her had anything to do with the Drone attack"
"It happened more than once"
"Yes, the drone destroyed a safe house of one of my associates."
"The politicians in Japan, they were the ones who committed isn't it?"
"No, they are associates of the person who I think is involved I just need to do some more hunting after I recuperate. But in the meantime I heal; I will help you with what you need. "
"What I need is you protecting me always"
"I have my people doing that"
"No I want you…just you to protect me"
Liz says as she wraps her arms in Divine's neck. Divine closes her eyes, savoring the moment.
"Why did you save me in the bunny ranch that month in Las Vegas, remember that Brenda?"
Divine just stays still, opens her eyes slowly and then puts Liz slowly and softly next to a wall and neither of them moving. Just being close like that, the aura was both calming yet seductive. Then, a cellphone rang, it was Liz's phone.
"You need to pick it up, I bet it's him"
Liz had no choice but to pick up and sure enough it was Red but through Dembe
"Liz, I'm arriving in your motel shortly, Mr. Reddington would like to speak with you, there seems to be a change in original plans."
"Ok Dembe, I'll be waiting"
Then she hangs up and Liz looks up at Divine
"I guess I should get going. If Dembe is coming it means my Intel arrived to him"
Liz grabs Divine's right hand as soon as Divine was about to leave with her duffle bag.
"You know something before you I was afraid of snakes"
Divine laughs softly and puts her bag down. She got closer to Liz and just hugged her with her good arm
"You shouldn't be afraid of me, I would never hurt you. You can trust me"
Liz just looks at her as Divine kissed her forehead and reached in her back pocket to give Liz a sunflower
"Until we meet again, love"
Divine picked up her duffle bag which wasn't heavy as Divine opened the door and left walking where there was a man outside waiting and she got in to the car and left.
As Divine's car came out of the parking lot, Dembe's car came in to pick up Liz. Then she got into his car and left to go meet with Red.
[Later]
"What the hell is going on"
That's the question Liz asked when Red finished talking to an old man carrying an oxygen tank went back inside after asking for Red for his meal which in itself it amused Red greatly
"We are shaking a few trees, there's been a delvopment. It seems I got an anonymous call where it affirmed me that Darryl Brown is somewhere in the southeastern region. So I came here since the gentleman in that room happens to be one of the brown's affiliates. He probably knows something of that nature-among other things."
Liz realized that Divine didn't tell him where exactly Darryl Brown was
"He's in India"
Red looks at her with some curiosity
"What made you come up with that conclusion?"
"Darryl wouldn't be in the states, it's too risky for him. He wouldn't be in Tokyo due to those politicians' murders. He would be somewhere where he knows he could get protection without risking himself by saying one name"
"It figures, he would stay at one of Divine's territories. Then I guess you should inform the others then we catch a flight"
{Meanwhile}
Meera opened her door and saw Aram standing there
"I'm ready"- Aram says
"Ok, I'll be out"
And then a person pushed Aram to the floor and as Meera picked her gun man grabbed her and Meera punched him as hard as he could and fended off when another figure put a gun behind her head. Then
"Hello"
Meera looked at the person in disbelief while Aram was intimidated
"What the hell are you doing here?"- Meera asks
"Well, I decided to stop by and actually talk to you, since you two and I go way back"
"You punched the daylights out of me in the tunnel"
It was Divine herself and she laughs sarcastically as she sits in the couch and the men were the drifters, her hit/death squad who made Aram and Meera sit down
"You tried to be smartass with me, it failed you miserably"
"What do..do you want"- Aram asks
"I'm not here to hurt the both of you. I'm here do to the fact that I need your help"
"We aren't helping you"- Meera says
"Oh you will, you owe me. If I can recall, I gave you the sikh bomber in a silver platter. I told you his location and whereabouts, the whole task force went, but you didn't want the murder to go back to you so you send me to kill him in exchange for my payment for one favor, now I come to collect."
"Is this true"- Aram asks
Meera doesn't say anything
"Rajesh killed her brother in the Mumbai bombing of 2008"
"Which you were a part of"- Meera says
"Yes, but have I known your brother being there, I would've deviated the attack elsewhere"
"Oh please you didn't do that out of the goodness of your heart but also because of the Nehru-Gandhi family. He killed ravji in 1991. You saved that family's ass even though they only thing they brought is corruption to my country"
Divine just says calmly
"You can believe what you want, I know exactly what I am. Besides you two owe me so much more. You two were under the umbrella of Hector, my adoptive father. Those two files of yours I will destroy them if and only if, you become my eyes and ears within the government and practically the task force"
Aram and Meera looked at Divine as if she was crazy.
"You out of your mind"- Meera says
"On the contraire Meera, I'm not. You see the task force is compromised. Starting with you Aram, your little crush on Samar Navabi, it ends now"
"You don't know her, she maybe an agent, but I know that she has feelings for me"
Divine smiles at Aram
"Keep thinking that Aram, the fact of the matter is, you are being led on by a person you don't know too well. I wasn't lying when I said that she was after me for a scuffle I had back in 2007 on a job I had. You must remember she has priorities which may or may not include you in them"
Aram looked at Divine with sort of sadness
"I understand how you feel, emotions get the better of us, and it clouds our judgment, more when we fall head over heels in love with someone."
"It almost sound like you lived through that experience Brenda"- Meera says as Aram looks at Divine and says
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Edward Snowden"
Now Meera looked at Aram with a face of confusion
"He asked me to pay you a visit due to how he saw how infatuated you were with her. You out of the 3 us Aram; you were always the good and sensible one. Ed had his morality and convictions conflict and me, I was just as fucked up.
"How is he?"
"He's doing well. My point Samar isn't the only one who's compromised but also believe it or not Clarice Starling is also compromised, both working for Red Reddington unofficially"
Meera and Aram now started to understand why Clarice was spending time with Liz a lot; it was due to Red's influence. But, on the Samar situation, they were confused as to what can possibly motivate Reddington to put her under his payroll. Divine spoke again
"So let's even the Plainfield, you two are my eyes and ears and I will do my part and destroy any files that link you both with hector. I'll reach out to both of you and when I do, I want an answer."
Then Divine gets up and leaves
[Hours Later]
Divine comes into a building with her hit squad plus Jamie and then sees two guards and he lifts her arms up as much as she could and says
"Goldstar"
Then the guards let her in with her people to this empty house Then Divine told them to stay put outside the door and she walked in the door which she saw two more guards
"Untie him"
Then the men begin to untie him as the man who was there, he was African-American, in his 40s and was wearing all black clothes. He said
"You call this laying low?"
"Based on the amount of time I had my people in moving your ass here, it wasn't much. Be glad I helped you out, Darryl"
"Girl what happen to you?"- Darryl says as he sees Divine's bandages
"Hestia attacked me but don't worry I have a connection working on her case. My concern is I know that the Decembrist paid for her services. But I need to know how Hestia knew where I was "
"Then girl, you know someone is talking, someone who knew you were going to be there or maybe, somebody paid them higher to make them talk"
Then Divine had flashbacks and suddenly everything connected.
"I already have my answer"
"Good, did you kill my brother?"
"Yes"
"Good, he's an asshole for trying to hand me over to Edison"
"So Edison broke you out?"
"Yes, I was originally supposed to go to Florida but before I did, Edison had a meeting with my brother and that's when I fled and called you"
"I'm glad you did-you do realize if you just had"
"No, I don't want to go out that way. I want to go on my terms girl"
"That is why I helped you. I know you aren't evil as they were Darryl. Rajesh and Hiroshi were the same but one had honor and the other scared from what happened 30 years ago."
"You know he was the one that gave the idea…Operation Bluestar… lone star"
"I know. Look Darryl, let me thank you for taking me in when I left Berlin before I reconnected with my biological father and also being there for Sofia, I know she loved you as much"
Darryl's face emotion got somber
"I miss her so much"
"I know you do but don't worry, I killed the people responsible for her death"
Darryl smiled
"So The Viper's no more?"
"No"
"You finally rule huh?"
"You can say that, now you know me as much Darryl that I don't care for that sort of thing"
"So you giving up The Viper's territories to somebody"
"Yes"
Darryl laughs
"I know who, I just hope they appreciate it"
Divine semi- laughs
"You sure, that's what you want?"
"Yes, girl. I want to leave that way-my final wish. One thing, I'm sorry for participating in that deal 15 years ago. I hope you can forgive me one day"
Divine's face soften
"Don't worry about it, I know you mean well now."
"I just have one request…take care of my cousin Jerome for me. Can I see him, for the last time?"
Divine nodded as she brought in Jerome
"I just want you to know that even though we didn't see each other much, just know I love you always Jerome. Take care of this girl for me will ya? Can you name your son after me?"- Darryl says
"Don't worry cuz, I will"- Jerome says
Darryl smiles
[Meanwhile]
Red, Liz, Meera and Dembe land on Indira Gandhi International Airport by Red's Jet. As they get out and pass through customs, they meet up at a car rental location.
"Ok, we're here so now what"- Meera says
"Let's hunt down Darryl Brown"- Liz says
Red comes back with keys
"Ladies, your car is ready, should we get to work"
TBC…..